novelraw Chapter 569: The Demon God Reappears
Chapter 569: The Demon God Reappears
Rumor had it that an evil spirit had infiltrated the courtyard, causing City Lord Gao Ye to feel a bit anxious.
Though he held the high position of city lord, the thing about evil spirits was that it didn’t matter if you were an official or a commoner; with their extraordinary powers, taking lives was as easy as turning a hand!
The time since he received the skill from the Fox Immortal was still short, and he hadn’t yet learned how to use the power he obtained. He immediately stood up and said, "Sect Leader Lu is indeed impressive, to sense the aura of the evil spirit from here. Since today’s skill granting is over, I’ll take my leave first."
Jing Peiran gave him a cold glance, thinking that the other had already been partially invaded by the soul of the same race, and in a few days, a green-eyed fox would descend. His displeasure subsided slightly.
Facing a mortal without spiritual power, Ali felt full of disdain, and coldly said, "Why the hurry, City Lord? Didn’t you hear the Sect Leader say no one is allowed to leave?"
The opponent was clearly just a kid who hadn’t even grown full hair, yet a single glance made Gao Ye’s heart skip a beat. A dignified court official was actually afraid of a yellow-haired kid!
The feeling was as if not obeying would result in being swallowed alive at any moment.
He shrank his neck, not daring to speak, nor did he mention leaving, sitting quietly as he didn’t dare to take a deep breath.
Jing Peiran was very angry, but helplessly, as he occupied a mortal body, many means could not be implemented. He had to push open the top floor door of the Golden Tower, standing on the narrow corridor outside, scanning the courtyard for signs of spiritual power fluctuations.
"Strange, why can’t I sense any spiritual power?" Looking over, the courtyard full of men, women, and children showed no traces of spiritual energy.
Thus, he couldn’t blame that group of fools who were paid to work. Thinking of this, Jing Peiran got excited again. A spirit testing disc, close to a divine artifact in quality, was not able to detect anything, indicating that the opponent had higher-tier treasures to conceal their aura!
That could only be a divine artifact...
He squinted his eyes, the corners of his mouth curled up with a smile; this king is indeed bizarre.
Why do cultivators speak with fear of the bizarre? Besides having forms that are strange and unpredictable by common sense, the more important part is they have terrifying pollution abilities.
Usually, the most crucial thing for a cultivator is the soul.
No matter if the body is shattered, as long as the soul is intact, the body can be reformed, or they can even possess and be reborn; once the soul is damaged, completing it again is very difficult.
And because of the valuable nature of the soul, no matter how high the realm is, cultivators dare not easily let their divine soul emerge unless it’s absolutely necessary.
The bizarre is different. Jing Peiran couldn’t say what exact changes occurred to himself, feeling like his divine soul was melted and reshaped, mutated into something like glue, small separations wouldn’t cause much harm.
Although the compatibility with the body isn’t very high, the advantage is that the divine soul can freely emerge and release the pollution aura, making even Daluo Golden Immortals retreat in thrice!
If stained by the bizarre aura and lacking purification means, the entire divine soul would slowly corrode and become polluted, eventually turning into a puddle of pus.
"Sect Leader, did you find anything?" Ali followed up, lowering his voice to ask.
At the same time, Jiang Yuan had just fetched a storage ring, and immediately all the descending green light spots disappeared. He knew that the other side had certainly halted the collective possession ceremony.
Next, the real actor would appear—the Clan Leader’s storage ring must contain good stuff, would surely be mad about losing it and hurriedly search for it?
Therefore, he emerged from the corner, squeezed into the crowd, while quietly using the Soul Hook to extract mysterious soul fragments from polluted mortals beside him.
Sure enough, before he could hook a few fragments, Jiang Yuan saw Lu Erxi and Lu Shaojie coming out from the top floor of the Golden Tower, standing on the corridor looking down to search for targets.
[Jing Peiran’s Mysterious Soul: Clan Leader of the Green-eyed Fox Race, a Divine Travel Realm demon cultivator of advanced rank monster. After the world collapsed, fortunately survived drifting in the void, and became a mysterious soul after entering the Ghost Realm.
When the original world collapsed, the Divine Mountain Sacred Stone of the Green-eyed Fox Race dropped into the human world. Jing Peiran established a connection through world fragments, choosing the covetous Lu Erxi as a target, set up the Fox Immortal Sect and enticed with benefits, attempting to lead the whole race for possession and descent.
Jing Peiran abandoned his body to possess the mortal body of Lu Erxi, leaving only divine soul power, currently equating to mid-level Transformation Realm demon cultivator strength. Mysterious soul fragments possess extreme pollution, please use treasures with increased poison resistance as much as possible...]
"The Lu family father and son duo are indeed beyond saving." Jiang Yuan carefully read the appraisal details and sighed secretly.
Had they listened to the advice at the time to maintain their original state, the Soul Hook could have pulled their souls back from the void, but now, it’s utterly hopeless.
The one occupying Lu Shaojie’s body was the husky voice that he communicated with last time, called Ali, a confidant of Clan Leader Jing Peiran.
Luckily, until now, only these two green-eyed foxes managed to successfully possess, and both are mid-level Transformation Realm monsters, one against two should be manageable.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan obediently put on the Breaking Miasma and Stabilizing Wind Pearl Treasure, gifted by Taoist Master Xuanqing’s remnant thought when activating the Misty Miasma Ridge instance.
After wearing it, Poison Resistance +150; Willpower +300. Willpower can resist fierce winds and to a certain extent resist illusion temptations, quite suitable for battling the perplexing forms of fox demons.
He also rummaged through his inventory to find an antitoxic pill and swallowed one.
[Swallowed a Grade-3 Antitoxic Pill, no poisoning detected. Poison Resistance +1000; Duration: 40 hours]
"Well hidden indeed, in that case..." Jing Peiran looked again and again, finding men, women, and children all mortals without spiritual energy in the courtyard, and the one daring to snatch his storage ring must be hidden among them.